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Re:996, GitHub, and China's digital workers rights awakening by xiaoyafeng on Thursday April 11, 2019 @03:51AM (#19631980)
Actually, I don't think github is proper place to discuss workers rights. First if China gov block Github eventually, The whole programmer in china would lose a good place to share, learning knowledge. Second, In China, programmers are looked as mid-class, what most of them earn are as ten times as what other persons who work at other area earn. we can't because they speak loudly, then think they are right. they 996 just because they earn much more.
Re:996, GitHub, and China's digital workers rights awakening by anoncake on Thursday April 11, 2019 @03:52AM (#19631983)
> First if China gov block Github eventually, The whole programmer in china would lose a good place to share, learning knowledge.

Good. Oppression should make a country less succesfull.

Re:996, GitHub, and China's digital workers rights awakening by ex-aws-now-goog on Thursday April 11, 2019 @07:49AM (#19633317)
> they 996 just because they earn much more.

Maybe in absolute terms but their per-hour income is lower. They're working 1.8 times longer than a 40 hour week but not earning 1.8 times as much as they would when working in e.g. Europe.